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    Back To Prayer: Reviving the Art of True Prayer & Intercession
    Back To Prayer: Reviving the Art of True Prayer & Intercession
    Back To Prayer: Reviving the Art of True Prayer & Intercession
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    Back To Prayer: Reviving the Art of True Prayer & Intercession

    By Cyril Opoku

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    See what sad things prayerlessness has done! The church that is, is not the church that was. And the difference is one: PRAYER. They were uneducated men, and far from being experts in the Torah. They were not privileged with the many seminaries that have pampered this generation. Beautiful cathedrals were only existent in their dreams of heaven. They did not have the sophisticated methods and technology with which we do “ministry” today. The Early Church only knew how to do one thing well, and that was PRAYER.
    If there ever was a time when the Church in these last days ought to return to the rock from whence it was hewn—even to the rock of prayer—it is now! Every pastor and teacher, every apostle and prophet, every bishop and overseer, ought to call a solemn assembly and stand between the porch and the altar, and sound out a trumpet call to his congregation, a call to return to the old—yet ever renewing—art of true prayer and intercession.
    In “BACK TO PRAYER”, the author, Cyril Opoku, draws timeless truths from biblical accounts of prayer that will stir up your heart and revive in you the art of true prayer and intercession.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS:
    1. Elijah, A Man of “Unlike” Praying—2
    2. The Prayer of Jabez—28
    3. Daniel: A Man of Prayer—50
    4. Moses, The Mighty Intercessor—66
    5. The Prayer of Hannah—86
    6. The Prayer of Zacharias—106
    7. The Prayer of Simeon and Anna—120
    8. Prayer In The Early Church—132

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuest Publications
    Release dateJun 5, 2015
    ISBN9781311682994
    Back To Prayer: Reviving the Art of True Prayer & Intercession
    Author

    Cyril Opoku

    CYRIL OPOKU is a graduate from the University of Toronto and the Toronto Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology. In obedience to God’s call, Cyril left his pursuit of a career in Pharmacy and enrolled in theological studies towards credentials with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. As a Bible Teacher and a Prayer Warrior Leader for almost two decades now, Cyril proves to be a man with an uncompromising message on the Holy Spirit and prayer. Currently, Cyril serves as the Youth Pastor and Prayer Leader of Living Word Assembly of God Church, located in Toronto, where he lives in with his lovely wife, Freda, and their sons, Avery-Elijah and Nolen-Elisha.

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      Back To Prayer - Cyril Opoku

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      Reviving the Art of

      True Prayer & Intercession

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      Timeless Truths from Biblical Accounts of Prayer

      CYRIL OPOKU

      Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved

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      Scriptures marked as ERV are taken from the The Holy Bible, EASY-TO-READ VERSION © 2008 by World Bible Translation Center, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Scriptures marked as ESV are taken from the The Holy Bible, English Standard Version © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Scriptures marked as GNB are taken from the Good News Bible – Second Edition © 1992 by American Bible Society. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Scriptures marked as GW are taken from the GOD’S WORD Translation Copyright © 1995 by GOD’S WORD to the Nations Bible Society. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked ISV are taken from the International Standard Version®, Version 2.0.0. Copyright © 1996-2010 by The ISV Foundation. All rights reserved internationally. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible (also known as the Authorized Version). Public Domain. Scripture quotations marked LITV are taken from the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible. Copyright © 1976-2000 by Jay P. Green, Sr. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked RV are taken from the Revised Version. Published in 1881. Public Domain.

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      Contents

      Elijah, A Man of Unlike Praying

      The Prayer of Jabez

      Daniel: A Man of Prayer

      Moses, The Mighty Intercessor

      The Prayer of Hannah

      The Prayer of Zacharias

      The Prayer of Simeon and Anna

      Prayer In The Early Church

      About the Author

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      [Elijah] seems exalted in his fiery and prayerful nature, as a being seemingly superhuman, but the New Testament places him alongside of us as man of like nature with us. Instead of placing himself outside the sphere of humanity, in the marvelous results of his praying, it points to him as an example to be imitated and as inspiration to stimulate us. To pray like Elijah, and to have results like Elijah, is the crying need of the times.

      - E. M. Bounds

      1

      Elijah, A Man of Unlike Praying

      Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

      (James 5:16-18 KJV)

      Very little is known of Elijah’s origin, and no mention is made of his parentage. He made his first appearance in Holy Writ as if he belonged to the lineage of Melchizedek, without mother and without father ¹. Many will feign to think of him as having celestial origins for the many remarkable works that were wrought by his hands.

      He shut the windows of heaven, locked them, and put the keys in his pocket—literally! There shall neither be rain nor dew except at my word, was his ultimatum to backslidden Ahab. As Elijah had said, so it was, for it rained not in Israel by the space of three years and six months, until he gave the word again, saying, I hear the sound of abundance of rain, and then came pouring forth from the windows of heaven such torrential rains that Ahab had to hurry to take shelter in his palace lest he be stopped by the rains!

      Indeed, Elijah was so unearthly that he was fed by the birds of the sky. Yeah, he was so heavenly that the fires of heaven were at his command—not only for his personal protection from being arrested², but also to prove to Israel that Yahweh was not dead³!

      A MAN OF LIKE PASSIONS

      Such is the man Elijah on whom we set our attention. Yes, the MAN Elijah. He was a man, and not an angel. James is careful to pen this down in order to dispel all conjecture on the origins of Elijah the Tishbite. He was not only a man, but as James stresses to us, he was a man just like us.

      Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are...

      (James 5:17(a) KJV)

      No room is left for any to think of Elijah as a super-man. He was but a mere man—subject to like passions as we are. The Greek word so-translated in James 5:17 means one who suffers the like with another, or is of like feelings or affections⁴.

      Elijah then was a weak man as all men truly are⁵. His weakness as a man is emphasized so that the performance of his exploits is logically disconnected from him. For how can a weak man do mighty things? Are not mighty works wrought by men of might, not weaklings? How then was a man as weak as Elijah able to perform the mighty works we read of him? This, I believe, is a noble inquiry that we ought to examine closely.

      Before then, let us take a cue from James’ emphasis on Elijah being a weak man just as any other man. Elijah was a father to James in the faith, if we may so speak, and yet James is not careful to acknowledge that Elijah was a man as weak as anyone else. It is sad that many think so highly of the church fathers as to put them in a class among super-men, yea, even super-saints who could not err, forgetting that they were but mere men subject

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